Definition?
Arataki
What is your definition of professional?
Define "generous"wages.
Like most passengers you have no idea what crew do.Nor do you understand how CC juggle their lives around their work(not a complaint,,a fact.)
How did you find out about PPrune?
Most if not all LHR base are young and single with no responsibilities.As with anything that is new there is a particular excitement.Fly on the same leg in a years time and gauge the enthusiasm.The first casualty of working for QF is your enthusiasm...the mangement suck it out of you.
Flying is fast becoming a young single persons job..Stay 5 years get burnt out and leave.
Todays society is critical of older people..just as you have been.I would guess that you are younger than 35.As you age and your priorities change remember your own words they may come back to haunt you.
American companies are slowly realizing that they made a mistake by retrenching their older more experienced employees.They have the answers.their absenteeism is lower and they are more stable than their younger counterparts.
What you are seeing is the transition of the airline industry from hospitality to transport....a bus service.Then,I guess, your criticisms will take on a different complexion.
Welcome to PPrune.